Famous quotes by Public Servants

"They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today, is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease"

Robert Cecil, Public Servant

"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherlands' Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security"

Michael Hayden, Public Servant

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